Amy joined Brilliant Corners in 2022, bringing over 20 years in social services, with a focus on housing and homeless services in LA County for the past 14 years. She participated in several of the homeless system’s major initiatives, including the Housing Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) in 2009, the first major rapid re-housing program in LA. In 2012, she managed one of 8 programs contracted with LA County Department of Health Services to provide supportive housing and case management to Health Services patients with complex medical and behavioral health issues who were experiencing homelessness and enrolled in Housing for Health. She helped lead the Registry project that preceded the Coordinated Entry System (CES) in Sunland/Tujunga/North Hollywood and went on to become the first “matcher” for Service Planning Area 2 when CES was piloted in 2013. More recently, she directed the opening of the first State Homekey Project in Los Angeles, which included 40 family units in North Hills in 2020. Additionally, Amy has participated in multiple county-wide strategy and planning groups, as well as special projects targeting high-risk homeless populations and expediting the subsidy housing process and service delivery.

Bob recently retired as partner at Goldfarb & Lipman, where he focused on transactional real estate involving the development and preservation of affordable housing, concentrating on structuring complex transactions involving multiple layers of financing, especially those with some type of federal assistance, including, for example, tax credits, FHA mortgage assistance, and Section 8 rental subsidies. Prior to Goldfarb & Lipman, Bob was an attorney at HUD, participating in numerous loan closings, negotiating the sale of properties from HUD’s multifamily portfolio, and enforcing the federal Fair Housing Act. Bob has also worked as a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles and Australia before abandoning all creative thought processes and attending law school. For fun, he occasionally sports odd facial hair, to the deep embarrassment of his two daughters. When that ceases to provide enjoyment, Bob likes to run, read, and tend to the backvard garden.

Earl J. Edwards is an educator, researcher, and human rights advocate. He is currently the instructor for the PSAP Educational Leadership course Leadership for Social Justice. He is also the director of the Housing and Educational Equity Lab (HEEL) at Boston College. Earl’s scholarship and practice focus on the impact of structural racism on public institutions in the United States and training leaders and policymakers to create systems to address racial inequities proactively. In 2018, he co-facilitated an ad hoc committee on Black people experiencing homelessness for the Los Angeles Homelessness Service Authority, and contributed to the committee’s groundbreaking report on structural racism as a primary driver of Black homelessness. Earl is a member of the National Racial Equity Working Group on Homelessness and Housing and the USC Homeless Policy Research Institute. Currently, Earl is a doctoral candidate at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. He earned his doctoral degree in education from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Master’s in Public School Leadership from Teachers’ College, Columbia University, and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Boston College.

Navneet Grewal is an accomplished civil rights attorney with extensive experience advocating for racial, disability, and economic justice related to affordable housing and community development policies. Currently General Counsel at the public policy firm Public Interest Advocates, she has almost 20 years of legal practice at leading public interest organizations like National Housing Law Project, Western Center on Law and Poverty, and Disability Rights California. Navneet has led complex litigation and strategic policy initiatives that have, for example, expanded constitutional due process rights for Section 8 voucher applicants, reimbursed thousands of public housing residents for rent overcharges, enforced state land use and zoning laws (resulting in the development of affordable housing, emergency shelter, and improved zoning for supportive housing), defended local source of income discrimination laws, eliminated racially discriminatory housing policies, and preserved mobile home parks. She is also a contributing author to several affordable housing publications and frequent speaker regarding affordable housing and tenants’ rights.

Chris Ko serves as the Senior Director of Programs and Impact for the Annenberg Foundation, where he provides operational and strategic oversight of the Annenberg Foundation’s community support fund for nonprofit organizations across greater Los Angeles. Chris previously served as the Director of Homeless Initiatives for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, managing Home For Good, LA’s collective plan to end homelessness, and leading California’s largest community-based effort to end homelessness developing the Coordinated Entry System, which went on to become a national model. The Coro Foundation named Chris a Public Affairs Leadership fellow through which he worked for the LA District Attorney, SEIU, KPCC, and LAUSD. Previously, he served on the boards of Coro Southern CA and the Supply Education Group.